Fight for the Future
Blast to the Past
Disclaimer:I do not own Dragonball Z or it's charactersClaimer:I do own Emily, Alexis, Jake and anyone else mentioned in this chapter (that don't belong to Dragonball Z)
Bulma had left the twins to think about the journey they were about to take. Alex sighed as she thought of a world where she lived with her parents and surrounded by her uncles and grandparents. She picked up a photo of her parents and her and Jake from when they where little kids and smiled.
"I can't wait to see everyone again." She said.
"Be warned about how young they will be Alex. Grandma Bulma said we would be going eight months before all this happened so me and you will still be babies." Jake warned.
"I know, and uncle Goten will be eight. And mom, she would be uh… 19? Two years older than us, now that will be creepy." Alex said.
"Yeah, and dad's three years older than mom so he'll only be twenty two. And Trunks will only be ten. I hope they don't think we're the enemies and kill us, that'll be just a whole waste of us going." Jake sighed.
"We'll take our time being there. We can set the machine back to like two minutes after we left. Even if we do work out how to destroy the aliens, we won't get anyone else back without the Dragonballs, so best to spend as much time with our past parents as we can. Who knows when we'll get to see them again." Alex said.
"Are you sure that's wise Alex? We don't want them knowing too much about what they're kids turn out to be, that'll cause them to change how they act around little me and you." Jake pointed out.
"We won't give that much away Jake, I just want to get to know them a lot more. I know, countless times that everyone says I'm the spit of mom and you're the spit of dad, but that isn't enough for me. I want to know them for myself, and because of those jerks outside I can't. We can clear our heads too whilst we're in the past, so we can concentrate. Because there's two of them and two of us, it'll most likely be the fact that we fight them together. Fusion isn't good enough for these two, we'll have to do it together." Alex said, determined to make this work, it was the best idea she'd have in years, it was a shame that her uncle and Trunks wasn't around to see this hope.
"Do you really think this can work? That we can actually pull this off?" Jake asked, smirking now, as he realised what his sister was saying.
"Jake, it's the best plan we have, let's concentrate on it to the maximum. It's got to work, it just has to." Alex replied, balling her hands up into fists again. It had been over a week since Bulma had suggested the time machine, and the twins were just playing cards in the living room with Pan. They'd normally had the radio on, but since the news was constantly about the aliens, they didn't want to get upset over them anymore than they already where so decided it would be best to not listen to what was going on outside their hide out. Alex had just won her fifth game of poker when Bulma came in.
"You guy's? It's done." She stated, Jake and Alex jumped to their feet and ran over to their grandmother, Pan following them.
"Go on, let's see it then!" Jake said, smiling, Bulma led them to the underground den, the three teens gasping as they'd never seen this part of the house before. They followed her into a room and she pulled a blanket off a large object revealing a twin time machine, identical to the one Mirai Trunks used, except longer and instead of the number one he had on the four legs, she had put a number two. And also written "hope" on it like the original one.
"Wow!" The twins cried in unison.
"What do you think?" Bulma asked.
"It's incredible, I can't believe you built it. Does it really work?" Alex asked, Bulma nodded.
"Well it's the same plans I used for your father's time machine and it pretty much worked for him." She replied.
"Gitana and Miles have gone south for a bit, so it should be safe enough for us to use." Jake stated, Bulma smiled again.
"Well it's ready for you two to use, when are you going to leave?" She asked, Alex looked at her brother.
"As soon as we can. I'm sorry it's so soon Grandma Bulma but every day we waste is another city destroyed and more lives are lost. Now we don't have the Dragonballs, we can't wish anyone back." She sighed.
"I understand sweetie. Well, why don't you two get ready then, I'll take this outside. It's a capsule one too, so you can always carry it around when your not in it." She explained, hitting a button making the machine shrink down to it's capsule form, the twins nodded.
"Great, I hope this works. I'll say hi to our parents for you." Alex sighed as she ran out the room.
"It'll be great to see everyone again." Jake added running after his sister, Bulma just smirked as she watched them leave.
"Those two will do it, I know it." She mumbled as she picked the capsule up, then turned to Pan.
"Wish I could go with them." She said softly.
"It was hard enough extending Trunks's machine to two seats. He'd just let Emily sit on his lap when they went back to his timeline. Don't worry Pan, we'll find a way to wish everyone back. At the moment we just have to wish Jake and Alex the best of luck with their mission. It'll be hard for those two seeing their parents again. Come on lets go." She sighed and left the room with Pan. Half an hour later, the twins had changed and packed a little bag of clothes each, Bulma realising they planned on staying in the past for a while. Alex was now wearing her grandfathers famous orange and blue gi, whilst Jake wore the clothes his father wore the first time he went back in time, complete with the Capsule Corp jacket.
"I'm so proud of you. Take good care of yourselves whilst you're a way do you hear me?" Bulma said embracing the twins.
"Yes Grandma Bulma, we will. Besides, our parents are there, they'll make sure we behave." Alex said laughing.
"Good luck you two. Come back alive, I still want cousins to hang around with." Pan said, also embracing them, Jake smiled down at her.
"Don't worry Pan, we plan to. Not much point going back to the past to train, if we don't survive to beat these two. Which we will." He said, as Bulma handed Alex the machine which she opened up.
"Bye everyone, see you soon." She said as she hopped into the time machine. Jake hugged Pan one last time then jumped into the time machine next to his twin, who was waving madly at her family below.
"I'm going to miss them." Jake sighed as they closed the top.
"We're going to win them a better future. We'll be back again as soon as we left." Alex replied, hitting the necessary buttons, then suddenly the machine took off to the air. The twins continued to wave to Pan and Bulma until it disappeared. Then they began their journey to save the future. Sixteen and a half years to the present day, Vegeta was working out in his gravity room as normal, Trunks was outside playing with Goten whilst Bulma was working on something in her lab. Goten had just been caught again when suddenly, a large object appeared in front of them.
"What is that?" He cried, jumping back, Vegeta also spotted the object and ran out as fast as he could. The lid suddenly opened and he watched in shock as two teenagers fell out the time machine.
"Oh man, how does dad do it?" The girl mumbled, holding her head.
"I dunno. How he kept doing it is what gets me." The boy grumbled also holding his head.
"Who the hell are you?!" Vegeta yelled, the twins suddenly looked up staring at the saiyan prince in shock.
"Who are you?" Alex asked, Jake tapped her shoulder and pointed to Goten and Trunks, then she cottoned on to who he was.
"Uh, I think he's Grandpa Vegeta Al." He mumbled.
"Did you just say Grandpa?" Trunks said stepping forward.
"We're allowed to tell them aren't we?" Alex asked, Jake nodded.
"Yeah, Grandma Bulma said we could. And yes, I did say Grandpa. I think we'd better go quickly to Mount Potaz, we don't have time for this." He said, to his surprise, Alex glared at him.
"Hey, you said we could stay here for as long as we can, I am not rushing this, that's how we do get hurt." She snapped.
"Fine, we won't go straight into training. Just let me close the time machine up, we can fly to Mount Potaz then." He sighed, walking over to it.
"I won't ask you again, who are you?" Vegeta demanded, Alex stared at her grandfather, she didn't know he was this impatient.
"Alexis. Jake. Your grandkids from the future, ok? Happy?" She yelled, Vegeta stared back at her in shock, no one had ever spoken to him like that before, Jake turned around and glared at his sister.
"Alex!" He snapped.
"What?" She demanded.
"Calm down. I know your angry right now, but we need these guys so don't take any anger out on them, got it?" He yelled, staring at her now.
"Whatever." She muttered folding her arms and walking off.
"Sorry about that, she's not normally like that, it's just we've come from the future to do some special training. Something has happened and we needed to travel back in time where it's safe enough for us to train." Jake explained, walking over to the others.
"Jake? Alex? Emily and Trunks's kids? Wow, won't they be surprised to see you." Goten laughed, looking up at his future nephew.
"Well I'm surprised to see you so small, your like seven years older than me in my timeline." Jake said smiling down at his uncle.
"I'm sure mom and dad, and Emily and Trunks will want to see you, let's go. Why don't you two come with us." Goten suggested turning to Trunks and Vegeta. Vegeta stared at his future grandchildren and nodded.
"Yes, I'll come with you. I'm anxious to learn about what terrible fate we have in store for us. I'll go and tell the woman where we'll be going. Although she'll probably want to come with us." He said, making his way into the house, Alex shot her grandfather a disgusted look.
"Grandpa Goku had better not be that uptight." She muttered.
"Oh, don't worry about that Alex, you'll find my dad is the complete opposite of Vegeta. I'm surprised though, don't you remember them?" Goten asked, frowning, Alex sighed at this.
"No, you'd be surprised." She said, taking to the air. Shaking his head, Jake followed his twin and taking the hint, Trunks and Goten followed them, followed by an irate Vegeta. A short while later, Goku was resting outside the house after having a spar with Gohan. Emily was watching with baby Alex in her arms whilst Mirai Trunks sat next to his wife with baby Jake in his arms.
"So what do you two think of all this fighting then?" Goku laughed, taking Alex off her mother and bouncing her on his knee.
"I'm sure these two will be fighting each other as soon as they learn how too. At the moment, I'm just glad their only crawling." Emily said smiling at the laughs coming from her daughter, Mirai Trunk nodded.
"Yes, they're bad enough now that they can move by themselves, we can't leave them alone for a minute. The fun of being parents." He sighed.
"Yeah, especially with there being two of them." Goku added, Gohan looked up in the sky and smiled as he felt his brothers, Trunks's and Vegeta's ki heading his way, but frowned as he felt two ki's that he'd never felt before. Emily also stood up now as well as Mirai Trunks and Goku, who automatically passed baby Alex to Emily then went into a fighting stance.
"I sense Goten, Trunks and Vegeta. But they're with two different people. I don't get it." Emily muttered.
"Neither do I. Do you want me to take the twins in?" Mirai Trunks asked, looking at his wife and daughter.
"No, lets just see who Goten brings, I'm sure who ever they are, they aren't dangerous." She said, Goku nodded.
"Yes, it wouldn't be like Goten to bring dangerous people all the way up here." He said, suddenly, Goten touched down, followed by the twins, then Trunks and Vegeta. Jake and Alex stared at their past parents in disbelief whilst Emily and Mirai Trunks stared at the twins.
"Why do they look like us?" Emily asked.
"Goten, who are they?" Mirai Trunks asked.
"They, are Jake and Alex from the future." Goten declared proudly.
"What?!" Emily and Mirai Trunks cried in unison.
"From the future?" Goku muttered, staring at his future grandchildren in shock, the twins exchanged nervous glances.
"I'm sorry, this must be shocking for you. But we needed a place to train, since it's no longer safe for us in our timeline to do it." Jake started.
"We come from sixteen and a half years into the future. Mother, do you still have the mobile gravity room Grandma Bulma gave you?" Alex asked.
"Uh, yeah. I rarely work in it though because you guy's, are crawling about the place but I still do have it. Why?" Emily asked, nervously looking at baby Jake and Alex, the twins stared at their past selves.
"So that's what I looked like huh?" Jake asked smiling at his baby self in his fathers arms, Alex stared at her baby self in her mothers arms.
"I look so happy. Wish it was still like that." She muttered.
"Why have you come here? Has something bad happened in the future?" Gohan asked, getting over the fact that his niece and nephew were only two years younger than their mother.
"Uh, yes. You could say that." Jake said, glancing at his sister.
"Well, you must have come in a time machine like mine, so you'll be here a while until you refuel it." Mirai Trunks said, Jake nodded.
"Yeah, it's exactly like yours Grandma Bulma said, she made it from your plans except she extended it for two of us to be in it." He said.
"Why don't you join us for dinner and you can tell us what happens, if your allowed to that is, if it changes the future dramatically, I don't know whether it's a good idea." Emily said.
"No. Grandma Bulma wants us to warn you. She said she wouldn't be able to live with herself if the same thing happened again. You have no idea how much we've gone through, the lives that have been lost!" Alex cried.
"Al, it's ok. We'll be safe here." Jake mumbled, embracing her.
"Sorry Jake, it's just they make me so mad. This has got to work, we just have to become strong enough." Alex said.
"And we will. Don't worry, I will make sure we will. Let's go inside, we can explain everything to them." Jake suggested, Alex sighed and nodded.
"Alright." She said, Goku stared at them.
"Why don't we have a family dinner in ours. That way, the story won't have to be repeated if they find it hard to tell it. It sounds awful though." He said, the twins nodded at this.
"Yes please, it'll be great to see everyone again. We're the only ones left." Alex said. Goku smiled at her weakly, then they all made their way into the son household.